Relative risks (RR) and 95% confidence intervals for total mortality by categories of body mass index in non-Hispanic blacks.

a.Subjects who did not have any prevalent cancer except non-melanoma skin cancer or heart disease at baseline.b.Per 100,000 person-years, directly standardized to the age distribution of the cohort according to sex.c.Adjusted for age, sex, education (less than high school, high school graduate, some college, and college graduate/postgraduate), marital status (married and not married), smoking status (never, former, current), time since quitting smoking (never, stopped ≥10 years ago, stopped 5–9 years ago, stopped 1–4 years ago, stopped 60 cigarettes/day), physical activity (never/rare, ≤3 times/mo, and 1–2 and ≥3 times/wk), alcohol consumption (0, >0–d.Adjusted for same covariates as noted in footnote c, except smoking status, time since quitting, and number of cigarettes per day. In analysis of men and women separately, sex was excluded from the list of covariates.